Physical Object: Traffic Management Center

TMC Service Patrol Management

Overview
Requirements
Information Flows
Standards

Overview

'TMC Service Patrol Management' supports dispatch and communication with service patrol vehicles that monitor roads to aid motorists, offering rapid response to minor incidents.

This functional object is included in the "Traffic Management Center" physical object.

This functional object is included in the following service packages:

PS08: Roadway Service Patrols

This functional object is mapped to the following Functional View PSpecs:

Requirements

#	Requirement
01	The center shall dispatch roadway service patrol vehicles to identified incident locations.
02	The center shall store the current status of all service patrol vehicles available for dispatch and those that have been dispatched.
03	The center shall share incident information collected by the service patrol with traffic, maintenance and construction, and traveler information centers for incident management, incident notification to travelers, and incident cleanup.
04	The center shall track the location and status of service patrol vehicles.

Information Flows

Source	Flow	Destination
Emergency Vehicle OBE	emergency vehicle tracking data	Traffic Management Center
Emergency Vehicle OBE	service patrol dispatch response	Traffic Management Center
Emergency Vehicle OBE	service patrol incident status	Traffic Management Center
Traffic Management Center	incident information	Emergency Management Center
Traffic Management Center	incident information	Maint and Constr Management Center
Traffic Management Center	incident information	Other Traffic Management Centers
Traffic Management Center	incident information	Transit Management Center
Traffic Management Center	incident information for public	Transportation Information Center
Traffic Management Center	service patrol dispatch request	Emergency Vehicle OBE
Traffic Management Center	traffic operator data	Traffic Operations Personnel
Traffic Operations Personnel	traffic operator input	Traffic Management Center

Standards

Currently, there are no standards associated with the functional object itself though the interfaces may have standards associated with them.